An epic Chinese novel WOLF TOTEM not only taps into our longstanding fascination with the lupine world; it also plays to the more contemporary sense that something precious is being lost as civilization encroaches on wild lands A bracing political fable.

─The Wall Street Journal

In November 2007, retired Beijing professor Jiang Rongs extraordinary debut novel won the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prizean award sponsored by the Man Group, which aims to recognize the best of new Asian literature and bring it to the attention of the worlds literary community. Penguin Group shared the Man Groups eagerness to introduce this remarkable novel to the world, and proudly published Jiangs WOLF TOTEM (Penguin Books; March 31, 2009; $15.00) in the UK, Australia, South Africa, India, and the US, simultaneously. Now available for the first time in paperback, WOLF TOTEM has garnered praise from critics and readers alikenot surprising, given the novels unprecedented bestseller status in its native China. WOLF TOTEM has broken all sales records there, selling at least one million copies in the first year alonealong with millions of black market copiesthus earning the distinction of being the 2nd most read book in China after Maos little red book.